May 28, 2017

Well Paul wanted us to show that video that he provided cuz that gives you five minutes worth of images of all the ministry they do and I have to know about the song in the background and he said it's a praise song that that repeats that Jesus is life that you come to Jesus for hope that he is the way I want it you sing there and it's always just need to see so many images of his ministry and those that He minister to their if you don't know Paul is a make sure that we support on a regular basis from India and this morning since he's in town. We're going to take this opportunity to interview him during the sermon time just to all of us. Can I get the advantage that some of us have had some of us got to have breakfast with them others have had fallen their home and got longer conversations about his ministry. So if I've got any typos, just excuse me, cuz originally had these nowhere but on paper just for me and then we decided to throw them on the screen. So anybody not here who watches this online later will be able to follow both the images in the question. The answer. So where were you where were you born? And where did you grow up?

I was born in the Hindu traditional family. I brought and broader atmosphere Hinduism practiced highly and my family is responsible for the village festivals and rituals and the sacrifices for offering to gods and goddesses in the temples. Will tell us about how you became a Christian and a minister. I became a Christian mine when I was diagnosed at this is called Brian Schumer, my parents tried all the hospitals and the doctors, but they could not find any hope for me to live. So I was on my bed across it like that by then sitting next to come and take me away while I was there almost for six months in Mobile unable to do anything depending on my parents for the water for the food for everything but one night, it wasn't me though. I was unable to recognize. That night but she disappear me like a man. He came with a glass of water and he asked me to drink. When I drank the water, I felt some power was flowing in my body and Experian to something touched and I feel that one. I'm all right, and just a check in my hands, and I check my legs, and I'm able to move and do and I can be able to call my mother. So I called my mother and I also have my did you send someone to give a glass of water? And then she said that won't know you did not send anyone and I slept long then she began to ask what happened to you because it isn't a surprise for her because I was almost immobile for 6 months and I'm depending on them, but I'll talk to you then. I said a man came to me and he gave a glass of water and I drank as soon as I drank the water I felt something touching my body and I'm feeling I'm alright. Then she took me to the whole house because all our house were filled with a lot of Hindu god images and idols and as well as for father pictures because Hindus are animists Wednesday worship the forefathers. They offer sacrifices. They offer food for special days every month baby lives that Wendy's forefathers. Those who died earlier will help the people when they are in need of feeling when they are in need of any kind of help and support she took me to the house and she showed me all my forefathers picture and she asked me is this the one is this the one he sees the grandfather in his she's a grandmother is anybody to you? Then I said, no, I could not realize any of these members of a family then out of curiosity. See keep on insisting me. Is that who is that? Then I have no chance. I need to think back. Who is that man? Who is that man? Then I realized that one. I have seen the man pictured on a piece of paper. It was given to me in the school. So when we take this purpose to our houses our parents are very mad, and they said they could not and you should not bring this Pappas to our house because it is not related to Hinduism or it is something foreign to us. I don't know those that are the gospel tracts given by the missionaries. Then she knows that pain when I said that when I saw the man on the piece of paper and she said that one no, it should not be because he's not that we have our own Adidas a family day this week and I will it cause we have how it can be.

Cheese's there and she can deny the gospel track, but she could not deny my healing she could not deny that one. I was healed completely that night, but she thought that one if I was really the from the house I miss share this thing to others in the school said they bound me in the house almost three months. They were not allowed me to go out the afraid that when if I speak this new faith that I got healed by Jesus Christ. They may have a problem from the community because India is in a community-oriented The Village Elders decide, who should I marry and who school I go what kind of problems we can do. So it is the community despite our future and Community everything in our houses. So they know that I hear this that a foreign God Jesus Christ heal me and if I testified it may give threat to their community in those days. So the bone Mets and after 3 months. They thought I might forgotten what happened to me. And I was released and I began to go to school and people began to ask me the question. So I did not forget what happened to me. It is not something simple that I can forget easily. So I began to speak to my classmates and my friends what happened to me on the night. So the new spread only released within 2 or 3 days. And all the family's got mad and Village elders and Community people that came to my house and then send it when we are hearing your son is propagating and giving a news that something happened to him in his vision because we have a lot of gods and goddesses and we know that but he's saying that don't know him and heal him. So it is corrupting our community and our children are getting character because of his thing and it because of his news so they continually expel you from the Villas excommunicate you from the Villas. So my parents they have no option for me to ask me to keep I don't speak it up because it is not only you because I have three more sisters and that one more brother together. We are seven in the family and we have no other property in other religions. So they never considered that when I should speak it up. So I spent almost six months in the house not allowed to speak about this fire in my bones. And that's sweet presents in my body. I can feel so one night the spirit of the Lord with me. I receive a bonus that I cannot keep quiet for the Cheetahs. Nothing will happen to me. So I decided I should speak about it. If I don't speak up man bun me a fire in my bones in the book of Jeremiah if I can speak the spirit of the news the good news and the healing power of Jesus Christ what gave me complete healing with a glass of water in it. Simple reason like a man, bun me. So the spirit of the Lord promised me that I should leave the house to go and follow Jesus. So then I went to my mother on Friday midnight and I woke her up. I miss you. I love you. I want to be with the family, but I wasn't no more because something is happening me strongly. It was so hard on me that I could not control myself by not speaking about the thing happened to me. Then she talked and kidding because I was 10 years old and she said that when she underestimate the faith of a child.

Faith fhic enrichment, but it is not my face, but the bonus. Came to Jesus Christ. And because he won't be completely he was completely on me and he won't be completely so the same night. I put my penis steps out, but I felt. The engine took my hands from the house like they did to Lourdes from the Sertoma. So I went out the same night and I went to a river near to our relays and I used to hide myself on the trees because if anybody find me in the same location in the same Village Cinema take me to take me to my house. They may take me to the center of the village. They may do whatever they want because I disown Hindu faith. I disown the community. I disown my family. So I used to hide myself almost like two days and I used to come down from the trees and bring the river water, but I'm waiting there because I know every Sunday the Christian missionaries used to come across the river to The Villages of the Sunday worship. So I know that these missionaries may come. I'm not sure but I know that these missionaries come when I met this stuff all day could not believe and they try to rebuke. No, you cannot do that when your parents and when your phone is ready to accept Jesus Christ you can come but I said that one I cannot because I'm completely up front that I should leave and follow Jesus Christ, then they said that we have no shelter. We have no option very new to this place and we have a lot of problems with our accommodation, but they said that when we're together for the congregation and I miss you. Happy you can stay there so that became my first Heaven on the Earth. Beaches without my parents. So I stayed almost 70 years in the small shed depending on the church and depending on the people for my food for my clothes and for the public school. That's what the commotion story many times. I used to feel I was left alone. But when I was down in my spirit, I could feel thousands of Angels were surrounded me and you spank well that you are not alone in this world that heaven was with you or with you the sweet presence of Jesus Christ was so real to me even today I can see and I can say that one. Those are the Glorious this for me and those days I could not forget. So that's what my face when I was 17 years. I want to become a medical doctor. I want to join in a medical school because of the age of 9.

Poke me in 1985 in India. So I have a strong determination that I should become a medical doctor so I can find something for the brain tumor. I can kill some people. I can't read some people. So we need to write and and Princeton admission test. If you get good rank in the test, we can be join and we can get the 100% scholarship. So I was so strong on my studies. I was strongly determined to prepare for the entrance test and to become a medical doctor and study 5 years in America school as I'm preparing one night. I pocket is a nightmare because of my ignorance and innocence, but that night I have seen. Thousands of people being collected in a big big basket like a Jaws they were simply packed up in the shop and they were taken up to the mountain and dragged down to the mountain and they were thrown down with some kind of people strong people just simply hold with their hands and sewing down to the valley out of my curiosity just a band down and I saw when these people falling down to the ground they are lifting their hands and crying is that anyone can help is that anyone can support is there anyone to hold out hands because the Flames from the Meg is inviting them and catch them they could feel the heat from the down so they are in desperate need of crying and shouting. When I saw that when I was completely terrified and the effort and I got woke up. I thought he was a nightmare. So then I went back to my bed and I try to sleep. But I could not I can hear in my eyes and my ears that people crying helplessly and I can see the images of the people been collected in the baskets and dragged down to the top of the mountain and from there. They were thrown down. So if I close my eyes I can see if I closed my ears T. It is ring and testing whether I lost my eyesight or rather. I became deaf because of this tale 16. Then completely it caught me. I did not count the mission, but the vision completely caught me and it became surrounded me. So I will leave it in the Restless live for coming 3 days until Sunday and you know that when I'm preparing to repair front entrance test to become a medical doctor, but last few days I'm struggling I could not concentrate on my studies and then I shared this is what happened to me. It's strange dream came to me and it caught me completely. I became one by the dream and it is killing my time. It is killing my spirit then slowly. He said God might calling you. Foreign Ministry, but it is not me to decide. I cannot decide your card for the ministry. I cannot determine that you are caught but I feel that God is showing something about people and about the work you are going to do in the future. I was astonished and surprised. Of course, I left my family at the time of 10. I'm in the church and following Jesus and helping the church sitting outside and the helping the papers sand is because in India, we are not allowed to bring us and this to the sanctuary the leave the sand is outside and they come so my responsibility in the church means I need to take care of all the temples and send it to other people because some of other Hindus recommend still be delivered. So that's what I'm serving. That's what my place every Sunday. Thank God today. I'm here once upon a time. I used to sit outside of the church and protecting the shoes and the descendants of the people. So I am feeling that when I'm serving the lord that's what I felt his ministry and then I did not prepare to become a complete full-time minister. So I thought but I'm not at all interested for the ministry. I know what it cost because I paid the price and I don't want to make other people to pay the price like me. So I don't want to do any kinds of ministry, especially this type of Minister preaching the gospel and rescuing the people from hell, then I tried somehow I need to get rid of this picture. The strange ones should be out of my mind so I can concentrate on my studies. So I tried it is fasting and prayer because I know that my password used to pray and fast to come from the things if you want to do anything and if Don't have any confirmation used to fast and pray so I know that I thought I should try fasting. So I prayed and fasted for 3 days, but it went very good nothing and second day it is. So pleasant. I thought my fasting prayer is working. Well. Intention of My fasting prayer is not to know the will of God to Simply get out of my mission. I want to get rid of the thing that I do know the will of God, but it's not secure and conversing with you people. Sometimes it happens to Christians like when they are not to obey the will of God, but to the second day went well and third day nothing happened, but pardon night. Is not something new the same Wishin and same people shame shout but it was so high level is the first tuition was at 1 I can say it is like 10. It was such a telephone and I could not control myself. I can even if I see maybe 10 to 15 minutes the same vision. Going to attack and I met and it was so hard on me. I could not stand and somebody take me to the church. So that time we moved to the church building and that the church has a small room where I make all my studies and my meditation and I was led to the offer room and when I try to enter into the room, Some hands that forcing me to enter into but some hands are dragging me out. Because Library Elizabeth one card to pay the auto for me in the room. To make my rebellious as a sacrifice, but finally I want to save the time so I went to enter into the room and try to hang over the windows 5 minutes at struggle, but have 5 minutes. I felt somebody simply sleep. Threw me to the ground. Platypus report was false belief turn down from the horse and I used to roll and after awhile. I'm crying and all my tears from my body came out. I don't know why I'm crying. I have no clue what happened, but I'm completely unconscious are things that happening, but it is not in my control. So I began to cry and began to cry and it's like I'm like ice cream melted down. So God is making me and my he made my Rocky hot tub. So after 10 to 15 minutes of PS, I began to. Afraid of commitment and asking the Lord Lord if it is you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for my unwillingness to a bear. Allowed me and you are calling me for something, but I could not realize because of my own plants and my own desire, but I'm coming to you and submitting my life and committing. Please pick me. Please make me. And break me and do whatever you want. Give me something I feel in my heart that I should ask the Lord to ask something small job so that I can offer the prayers of commitment. I could feel the peace like a river and when I go down I could feel that one. I was at the feet of Jesus Christ. His feet were completely wet by Matthias and it took me to his hands and he and he said yes, I have been called you and working on you since the 90s. Paul and the one who brought you back from your house. I'm working on you but you out working on your own will I love you? And I want to make you a Channel of blessing to me. Then I come there and instead of ending into the medical school. I ended up in the bible school. I tried it to prepare for the ministry in 2001. I graduated and I went to the mountain and preach the gospel and from the same Mountain Community. I got my wife to the tribal girl, isn't it? Auntie to Hindu caste system in two cats are not allowed but I will be and I got married and my wife Rachel and we stayed three years there and then we move to And we did Ministry for five years. So I am not sitting still so PS, I walked on the mountain established the check then I moved to Village in a small village. Then he leaders Baseball Song Community where people lives like five to six people in a single room made of plastic sheets in a muddy field grass bear southern gospel in 2011 to go to in a city called.

Small that's why we got 1.3 billion people in India. So that's what my faith in me and my journey with Jesus and serving the lord and preaching the good news. Is that what does your ministry look like now? What's what do you dominantly do in you in your ministry? Simply I say giving Cheese's. Giving the gospel giving the good news giving the Hope giving the low. Not the Christianity Jesus preaching and sharing the good news and putting Bibles and folks hands. And then do you do you provide food or or things that folks need that's what we feel that one gospel is not only to be shared gospel should be showed. So we feel that when we are obligated to preach the gospel to share the gospel as well as we want to be the gospel to see the gospel rather than so we balance and we make the people aware of the gospel and we use any and every opportunity for the people Dulce Dulce Jesus. Dulce love of God Do you see the hope we have in Jesus Christ because Indians don't need other God because they have 300 million gods and goddesses. Everyday gods and goddesses evolves now in Jesus in Christianity to be the gospel and we want to share the gospel and we use all the opportunity. So we preach we love and we care davido's we feed the people take the children make them our own children. Keep them in my house. Children that don't have families or family's even though they don't know when I meet them in 2015. I went in a gospel convention and see this gospel convention. First day. I came out of my Camp to relieve myself and I found many children simply falling down barely on the ground. Then I called the minister and a school these children then he said that one because we are having this gospel convention because when we have received the paper, they give people a thousand people simply we give rice and some kind of Curry. So after the meeting they will he eat the food and go to The Villages, of course. It's like they may walk like six to seven hours to come gospel trivia. Even for us it takes only 6 hours to reach them by walk. So we go and they come and he said that because they know that when we will leave the food so they can and I woke up some of the chilling and said I called and what his own and they said they have no idea. They don't do anything. Then I came to my camp and I slept and I asked the Lord. What are you doing? I was an outfit like that like I used to sleep on the ground, but if I'm talking about I begin to Austell. What are you doing with the chilling on the mountain? No answer the question came to me.

You came to preach the good news to the paper, please.

I have no answer my friend. Today's I could not reach. I prayed but not with my heart with my lips with my internet. No Hawking my preaching simply I'm preaching for the sake of preaching. But I know that when I'm actually reaching those days I came back to home and I have a family and I had three two and we are under Financial in public schools because we are Christians if my children go to the public schools. They need to all the Hindu prayer death Parts baton all Hindu activities in the school and the Indian school ends with the Hindu prayers and then need to practice all kinds of Hinduism. Otherwise, they're not have any provision the school. So I'm struggling. I have 30 minutes. I'm taking care of the other widows and willing to take this and ministers is so hard on me, but I'm unable to do anything for the children. So I shared with my wife and said that she said that one if you are. Answering car to take a picture then. I'm happy to cook them. I'm happy to adopt them as my own children. So then I took it from the mountain when I brought them. I gave them names we shall tell them I build a building which can I come we are starting in a ton of the public school Christian School Bill Cosby children. Do we have accepted? We brought them to my home in the schools. They were not accepted. They were treated very badly because the language is different the color is different because they're from Mountain and we are living in the area and I down so they are not active. They don't want to go to the school this what happening. So I took another face step 2 start at school in coming soon. This cool can accommodate children from

And the children can come to our school and our children in the home can have the education because as I said earlier 66% of people in India, they can read and write illiteracy ignorant and illiterate fit that is a deception if they know something if there is something they don't fit so deliberate India and Hinduism want to keep the people ignorant. So with this opportunity to give Jesus to school education. How many children do you have in the present? I have 22 from 18 months to years old the 80s for 2 months back one of our congregation I season a single video and she died. In a night within a heart stroke. So 18 months Boy and 3 years girl was left alone. They have no place to go if I'm not to take a Google so we took them that's what we have seen in the picture that when my wife is getting the 18 months. We are so grateful when I came last number I shared interests you in here and of course he is supporting a child since January and there are some other friends helping and sponsoring the chilling and we have sponsors with 10 children complete hundred percent spawn ship we have and this is my second time to share and riser support for this hopeless children in India.

More detailed information about your ministry. What do you find to be one of the biggest obstacles to sharing the Christian faith in India the biggest obstacle? Is government since 2014 we got a government which based on their Hindu a Zinda their conviction is that all India belongs to him know if you were born in India, you should be a Hindu you should born as a Hindu you should die as a Hindu they are creating this Hindu nationalism. They want to see India as a Christian and Muslim free. But where is Muslims in India? And they have got connection all over the world and their wailing people so Hindus they can't do anything but Christian * 2.3. I cannot see the minority. It is like a micro minority but still in the film that won 2.3% of Christianity in India becomes tattoo. So there are re converting the Christians into Hindu Faith. So they are trying to oppressed by threats and everyday. That burning the churches African here within these two weeks. I had from my friends in Australia and from India this one down. Which property is being demolished destroy that has been beaten up? And I in January 7th some Hindu mobs broke into a pasta house the god pastor and his wife with 7 months pregnant with the Casselman and they will survive in the hospital this at a place on the church and the band revivals the band The Gospel tract and they were planning to ban the Bible printing by 2019. They want to see 2019. Everyday, that is reality today. I have no hope and I have no guarantee that I can see my family once I go back and set the entity everywhere. What things are you seeing that are working in? What ways is God overcoming those obstacles in those barriers? Cuz I see a lot of fruit born in your ministry a lot of conversions a lot of good things happening. What do you think? How is God helping that happened? What's how how are you overcoming the obstacles that are there? The only one thing to Wild come this situation? assembly willingness to follow Jesus willingness to preach the gospel. Willingness to off the good news. We have no other option to bring India to Christ.

Preaching the good news is the only Main and only way to bring people to Christ. I didn't find any other men, and I did not find any other power. Bendy gospel which contains the lives of the people the transformation of the people since 2011 and since 2001. I have been treating this good news in spite of suffering in spite of hardship in spite of Hardee's in spite of Oppression in spite of interested but gospel is always the power and we wanna pop. So I did not find anything rather than preaching the Good News. That's the only Main and that is the only hope to India people need to get an opportunity to hear about Jesus. There are 400 million people live in India on bridge and then never once in their lifetime. So we want to use all the opportunities to share the gospel so we could go into the states. That's why he don't give me all the 65th 85th by motorbike by Jeeps into the problem. India has no problem. If the changes can inside if they have worship within the church. They have no problem. If we go out and preach Jesus is a problem to them because Jesus is a name most hated person to Indian because we say that Jesus is the son of Gods and Goddesses. We are disowning 300 million gods and goddesses and we are promoting one guard we have run into the problem, but we have no other option. Exit preaching the Good News In The Gospel cannot change the lies tell me what can change the paper my friend. And what's up? What's the best way we can be supportive and helpful to your ministry there? definitely press I believe in prayers prayers are powerful prayer walk around the Grove. God was only True and so then we know that people are praying for us because you know, we are fighting Us in Indian. They cancel that we are not belongs to India aliens to them. We have no paper for them. They don't know that we have brothers and sisters in u.s. Brothers and sisters around the world praying for us remembering has thinking of us because I have some friends like David and other groups. They made every month only for prayer the prayer for India. They prefer bat in the mission and the activities so prayers of greatest support and secondly finances. Nice are great. But what day is it?

Ready to sacrifice their life for the sake of Christ and for the sake of gospel and we need financial support to send the missionaries. We have that the minister and every month $60 to dollars a day in missionary because we don't have only worship service on Sunday everyday is a worship Services everyday in every month if I can able to get $16. To them it can help them with $100. I can buy an egg bicycle so they can do the gospel work little bit space and I can accommodate a congregation because the people in India, they don't allow the churches to be in The Villages so our congregations meet under the bridges. They made under the trees and sometimes is giving trouble. So if you have $5,000 we can build a building which can I come late like a hundred 250 people. We don't want any music. I'm so happy when I come here, but we have a shelter to come and worship was the greatest thing and for the children $100 and $60 they need for a month to get free meals for $2 a day can get free movies to the children $50.

They every week I need to take them to the hospital and they have a lot of because they are not immunized Elliott 100% $100 can help to have loved to have life. It is not the money but you got to giving life low and loves and lol. They want to have the Cheese's and hope and it is very exciting to hear that and gosh I I I only have the first couple of questions on the screen. Although we covered a lot of them that are still in my head and we could honestly kind of open up box lunches and stay here all afternoon. I think and enjoy hearing this because it's so fascinating and so encouraging your commitment to the gospel and what's going on there and the church supports this ministry monthly but like I mentioned earlier there's also material where you might decide you're going to spoil him directly or you can support this ministry through the church. The church's missions fund and so you can quiz Marlene about that or or me, and I know the missions committee David Fulcher Marlene have a special gift for Paul and I'm going to bite them up. We're going to have a time of prayer for Paul and present a gift for him here financially just to bless him as he goes back. He's going to continue to travel to churches in Louisiana and Florida before he goes back to India and maybe we'll be blessed in 2018 to get to see him again, but keep his ministry in your prayers for SF hour flu. Yes, and then what a blessing to to hear directly so that you guys can make your prayers more tangible. We can continue to find ways in which we can support his ministry. I know ministre which is a pair of church ministry here in Lexington. KY is looking into creating a short-term missions team in missions trip in December to come to Paul's Ministry and help support to join in everything from teaching. Women's sewing skills other skills that they need to bring a pastor's into train pastors all that may happen on a trip in December. You may see us promote that that's a Lexington wide thing mini stroke is an area-wide Ministry, but Hillandale might especially be interested in knowing about that in case any of us. I feel called to go do that and help support. And in most of the day with Patrick is planning a trip in Fall. Okay. I'm glad you mentioned David Steele. What we do have is one of our deacons here until he's a very direct connection to Paul. So if you have questions about Paul's Ministry or that possible trip in the fall that he's taken or even the trip that may happen or that will happen December of mini stroke. You can quiz David or me Caleb is also our youth pastor is on the board for mini straw. He's another connection to quiz about that trip. I'm down here. What's up? What's been a cup of almonds and prayer? And I think they have a presentation and then we will we will close out in prayer and the worship team. I'll invite you guys Ford. I when we finish this presentation and prayer then we'll have our our closing song so This is just a small smoke. Okay? Thank you. Appreciate you coming so much. Thank you, and if you guys would just kind of gather around just lay hands on brother Paul and will lift up a Ministry. First of all most holy and righteous father. We just want to thank you. We thank you for your your goodness and your grace. Your mercy and your love. We thank you that that you promised that you would never leave us nor forsake us even to the end of the Earth and father. We just want to lift up to you brother Paul She prayed for Your continued anointing on him we play pray for your blessings and protection for him as he goes and he's he goes boldly father God to proclaim the hope that we have in your prayers son Christ Jesus our lord and he's all these things that we pray in his name. We love you. We thank you and we continue to pray that you receive all the blessings from as he goes in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thanks so much. I appreciate it.

As as we prepare to sing or hum a song of invitation and then we'll have communion and offering I would let you know during this time. They'll be folks in the back and the front for prayer if you have a prayer concerned if you have a decision to make I'll be available in the back Paul shared his own testimony. I haven't shared this very much publicly, but I could relate to some of what he said when I was 18 years old. I wasn't raised in the church. I had began living as an adult far from God and my life was so crushed by own decisions that I sat at my parents kitchen table on January 5th 1986 and I contemplated whether I would take my own life. Or follow Christ. I felt like those were my only two choices my life had become so out of control through my own sin and decisions that I couldn't imagine going forward and I knew my only hope was Christ, but I didn't know if he'd accept me. I didn't know if I was good enough. I'd met Christians and they're all such good and loving people and I thought if the devil was in this moment, you know, the adversary comes in your ear that kind of moment and he says things like, oh, you'll convert and two weeks later. You'll be behaving like a you know, you know, what in front of all these good Christian people you've met there don't make any decision. If you're a loser you're you'll fail at that and so a thousand Whispers in my ear from the adversary was saying really the only good choice you have is to pick up that gun you got laying on the table and ended.

And I still remember that moment when I just had I remembered hearing a sermon from Romans 7 where Paul says oh Wretched Man that I am at the end of chapter 7 who will save me and then he answers his own question. He says Jesus Christ will save me and then Romans 8:1 begins with there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. As soon as I recalled that verse all of the voices of the Emissary or silenced. It was completely quiet in that moment and I called out to God and gave my life to him and I can't tell you how blessed I've been since then that God would take a wretch such as eye and blessed me with the wife I have with the family I have with the opportunity to the administer and pause honesty and testimony just reminded me of that and the truth is everyone of us who follow Christ If we're honest we know that it started with that moment. That moment where we knew we had to have gone we knew we needed him. We knew that we couldn't take care of our own sin problem. We couldn't forgive ourselves and be clean and righteous we couldn't control whatever it was. It might have been controlling us at that time.

Or you may be here this morning knowing that you're in that moment right now. You're living your life without Christ and it's out of control.

You know that your burden by your own sins, you know that your burden by separation from Christ. Please here with me the way I did the gospel that Paul says who will save me and the answer is Jesus Christ.

So if you have a decision to make use this time that we sing to come pray with me to come talk with me in and make that decision and if you've already made that decision then use this time to remember what Paul shared and what I just shared that we have so much that we owe Christ so much that we all God we're so blessed and so privileged and so let's thank him with our worship. Let's thank him with our service was thinking with our support of ministry here and all over the globe.

Stand and praise God together.